Apple CEO Tim Cook In an article headlined, “What’s Wrong With Apple?,” The New York Times reports Friday that Apple plans to release its delayed Apple Intelligence Siri features this fall. Tripp Mickle for The New York Times: ‎ [C]ompany insiders worry that Apple, despite its years of gravity-defying profits, is hamstrung by the political infighting, penny pinching and talent drain that often bedevil large companies, according to more than a dozen former and current employees and advisers. While Vision Pro sales have been disappointing, Apple’s issues with Apple Intelligence exposed dysfunction inside the organization. In a nearly two-hour video presentation last summer, Apple… revealed an improved Siri virtual assistant that could combine information on a phone, like a message…

Apple today added the original 12-inch MacBook to its obsolete products list, meaning the laptop is no longer eligible for repairs or service at Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers. Introduced in March 2015, the 12-inch MacBook featured a thin and light design that weighed just two pounds. With prices starting at $1,299, the original model's standard specs including a 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor, integrated Intel HD 5300 graphics, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. "Apple has reinvented the notebook with the new MacBook," said Apple's former marketing chief Phil Schiller in a March 2015 press release. "Every component of the MacBook reveals a new innovation. From its fanless design, ultra-thin Retina display and full-size keyboard…

A U.S. judge has rejected Apple’s bid to toss a class-action lawsuit that accuses CEO Tim Cook of defrauding shareholders by concealing falling demand for iPhones in China. Apple CEO Tim Cook Jonathan Stempel for Reuters: U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ decision late Monday night clears the way for shareholders led by a British pension fund to sue over a one-day plunge that wiped out $74 billion of Apple’s market value. The lawsuit stemmed from Cook’s comment on a Nov. 1, 2018, analyst call that while Apple faced sales pressure in markets such as Brazil, India, Russia and Turkey, where currencies had weakened, “I would not put China in that category.” Apple told suppliers a few days later to…

Google surrendered the field of AAA game streaming with Stadia, but that won't stop it from launching a poorly conceived web and mobile gaming platform on YouTube.Google's previous attempt at gaming didn't go wellSoon, YouTube users may be able to engage with small gaming experiences called "Playables." These would launch directly in the YouTube browser or in a mobile app on iPhone and be easily sharable between users. Read more...

Google surrendered the field of AAA game streaming with Stadia, but that won't stop it from launching a poorly conceived web and mobile gaming platform on YouTube.Google's previous attempt at gaming didn't go wellSoon, YouTube users may be able to engage with small gaming experiences called "Playables." These would launch directly in the YouTube browser or in a mobile app on iPhone and be easily sharable between users. Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Caltech's Wi-Fi patents, and after a decade-long legal battle, Apple is finally on the hook for the billion-dollar verdict.Decided on Monday, the Supreme Court justices elected not to continue dealing with an appeal by Apple and Broadcom over an earlier court ruling preventing the companies from contesting the California Institute of Technology's Wi-Fi technology patents.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit previously ruled against arguments from the companies to say the patents were invalid, due to a failure to raise them during an earlier hearing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple and Broadcom argued that they could raise the challenges during the trial, but with the…